![]() Penguin will reissue the first three volumes of the Buru quartet in paperback to coincide with the publication of House of Glass. (May) FYI: Pramoedya is currently under city arrest in Jakarta: all his books remain banned in Indonesia. ![]() ![]() Here, by filtering the anti-colonialist struggle through Pangemanann's ambivalent, warped perspective, Pramoedya spikes his epic saga with slyly modernist irony, creating a work that is as subversive today as when it was written. Indonesian writer and dissident Pramoedya Ananta Toer concludes his epic of Indonesian. The first three volumes of Pramoedya's quartet (This Earth of Mankind Child of All Nations Footsteps)-written during the author's 14-year banishment, 1965-1979, to the prison island of Buru-were narrated by Minke, a progressive witness of world events. 9780140256796 Our cheapest price for House of Glass is 4.13. Yet, as an obedient tool of the Netherlands Indies' ruling elite in the period from 1912 through the end of WWI, Pangemanann feels duty-bound to crush Minke and the native movement he represents, whether by arrest, torture or counterinsurgency terrorism. ![]() Recognizing the rottenness of the colonial administration, he greatly admires Minke, crusading newspaper editor and nationalist fighter against Dutch imperialism, considering him a man of principle. Police commissioner Tuan Pangemanann, narrator of this concluding volume to Pramoedya's extraordinary tetralogy set in colonial Indonesia, is a Sorbonne-educated reactionary, a consummate hypocrite, a cultivated monster, a sadist with pangs of conscience. ![]()
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